analyses and assessments
Balkan Monitoring
This platform focuses on analyses and assessments of developments in the Western Balkans.
2024
A Troubling Omen for Ukraine in the EU’s Balkan Membership Struggles
Südosteuropa: Der große Raubzug
2023
The West’s ‘see no evil’ approach to Serbia’s Vucic risks destabilizing the Balkans
Carole Hodge: Britische Politik im Bosnienkrieg und danach
The United States Is Creating a Kosovo Crisis
2022
Pettigrew: Russia has been trying to destabilize Bosnia for 10 years
US Reinvests in Ethnic Oligarchy in Bosnia, Abandoning Support for Integration
The West is Shoring Up its Vulnerabilities in the Baltic – The NATO Summit Should End the Zombie Policy on the Balkans Too
2021
Human Rights Plaintiff: US-EU Election Plan for Bosnia Rewards Nationalist Agendas
Is the US Doubling Down on Division in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
About Us
This platform focuses on analyses and assessments of developments in the Western Balkans. The failure of Western actors to react in the 1990s led, among other things, to the genocide in Srebrenica. Wrong basic assumptions, but above all, momentous appeasement led to a misguided policy that did nothing to counter the years of ethnic cleansing, expulsions, and murders of innocent civilians as well the tens of thousands of rapes. The so-called international community did not react until the genocide of more than 8300 Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica became a reality.
Analyzing the contexts, remembering the historical events, and putting them into perspective is essential for a robust peace and democratization policy in the Balkans. The complex interrelationships and interdependencies require scrutiny – which often falls short in everyday political life and public discourse. We want to make the voices of analysts and from the ranks of civil society of the victims more visible and audible so that the failures of the 1990s are not to be repeated.
